Vietnam Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Documents

September 2014

On 13 July 1992, the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs levied a task on NSA/CSS to review SIGINT reporting for relevance to the Vietnam POW/MIA issue and possible correlation to individual POW/MIA cases. NSA/CSS provided the Committee with three Correlation Studies, produced in August 1992, September 1993, and September 1996. Most of the information mentioned in these studies is chronologically organized by Reference Number (RefNo), which is listed as case #, and includes the incident date. The Department of Defense assigned RefNos to each incident in which there was the potential loss of life or capture. There are some entries without a RefNo or case #, but do have the incident date. The earliest incident is dated 1951 and the last 1988.

Over the next several months, NSA/CSS will post over 1600 additional documents related to POW/MIAs in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The documents are NSA field site reporting, NSA end product, summary reporting, memoranda, watch officers notes, and analyst communications. For ease of searching, those documents will be accessible under links posted for each RefNo for which they contain pertinent information.

The correlation studies and the documents related to the incidents have been previously released under the FOIA in the past, but they have never before been posted together, facilitating access to families and historians. In addition, the documents have been reviewed using the most current guidance, making this release the most complete of any prior releases.

 

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HOSTILE AIRCRAFT PROBABLY DOWNED BY SAM NORTH OF HANOI, PILOT CAPTURED 0416.PDFHostile Aircraft Probably Downed by SAM North of Hanoi, Pilot Captured 0416
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT PROBABLY DOWNED BY SAM NORTH OF HANOI, PILOT CAPTURED 0417.PDFHostile Aircraft Probably Downed by SAM North of Hanoi, Pilot Captured 0417
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT PROBABLY DOWNED BY SAM NORTH OF HANOI, PILOT CAPTURED 0418.PDFHostile Aircraft Probably Downed by SAM North of Hanoi, Pilot Captured 0418
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT PROBABLY DOWNED BY SAM NORTH OF HANOI, PILOT CAPTURED 0420.PDFHostile Aircraft Probably Downed by SAM North of Hanoi, Pilot Captured 420
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966 0349.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966 0349
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966 0350.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966 0350
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966 0351.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966 0351
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0349.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0349
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0350.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0350
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY DRV SAM, 31 MAY 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0351.PDFHostile Aircraft Shot Down by DRV SAM, 31 May 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0351
HQS, NVN 274TH SAM REGIMENT, REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1975.PDFHQS, NVN 274th SAM Regiment, Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1975
DOC_1547.PDFICCS Member Detained During Recent Action in South Vietnam (2020)
ICCS MEMBER DETAINED DURING RECENT ACTION IN SOUTH VIETNAM 1996.PDFICCS Member Detained During Recent Action in South Vietnam 1996
INTELLIGENCE EXCERPTS 0302.PDFIntelligence Excerpts 0302
INTELLIGENCE EXCERPTS 0910.PDFIntelligence Excerpts 0910
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